Certificate Program in International Relations

Committee

  • William B. Hauser, Ph.D. (Yale), Professor of History
  • Randall Stone, Ph.D. (Harvard), Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Committee

NOTE: An International Relations major and minor now exist, through the Department of Political Science. The Certificate Program in International Relations will not be available to students entering in the fall of 2008 and later.

Certificate Requirements

The International Relations Program provides students with an opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary knowledge of international relations. Those interested in the program should put together a program that includes 10 courses:

  • Two courses in economics, two courses in history, and two courses in political science from among those listed under the heading, Primary Courses, and
  • Four courses from the list of Primary Courses or Secondary Courses, or four substitute courses approved by the student's International Relations Program faculty adviser, of which up to two may be foreign language courses beyond 105.
  • In addition:
  • No primary course may be taken satisfactory-fail, and no more than one secondary course may be taken satisfactory-fail.
  • Students must earn an overall GPA of at least 2.0 in courses submitted for the program.

The International Relations Certificate Program is administered through the College Center for Academic Support (Lattimore 312 / Tel: 275-2354). Students who plan to enroll in the program should:

  1. Pick up an application at the Academic Services Counter outside CCAS (Latt 312)
  2. Fill out the application
  3. Have it approved by a member of the International Relations Committee
  4. Return it to the Academic Services Counter outside CCAS (Latt 312)

In general, this should be done no later than the end of the first semester of the senior year.

Upon graduation, students successfully completing the International Relations Program will receive a certificate in International Relations.

Students should consult Professor Stone (Harkness 306, 273-4761, randall.stone@rochester.edu) about courses offered each year by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies and about courses taken on the British or European Semesters, some of which may be counted toward the International Relations Certificate.

Primary Courses

  • Economics (*With the exception of ECO 108, all ECO courses have prerequisites.)
  • ECO 108 Principles of Economics
  • ECO 207 Intermediate Microeconomics
  • ECO 269 International Economics
  • ECO 270 International Finance
  • ECO 272 International Political Economy
  • ECO 273 Economic Growth and Development
  • ECO 294 Economic Dev. in a Global Context
  • History
  • HIS 106 Colonial and Contemporary Africa
  • HIS 148 Recent America, 1929-present
  • HIS 151 History of Imperial Russia
  • HIS 152 Stalin's Russia
  • HIS 170 America Since 1945
  • HIS 183 Modern China, 1600-Present
  • HIS 184 Modern Japan
  • HIS 201 The Third World
  • HIS 205 Europe Since 1945
  • HIS 210 Economic Development of the North Atlantic
  • HIS 223 France since 1870
  • HIS 225 Germany and Austria, 1866 - 1914
  • HIS 237 England and Ireland Since 1800
  • HIS 238 History of British India
  • HIS 240 Russian Women - Past and Present
  • HIS 242 Commissars and Managers:Soviet Economic
  • History, 1917-1994
  • HIS 265 America and the Good War
  • HIS 269 History of the 1960s in the U.S.
  • HIS 290 The Cistercians (The White Monks)
  • HIS 302 The West and the World
  • HIS 320 The German Problem
  • HIS 344 North Africa and the Middle East in the Age of Imperialism
  • HIS 348 Modern Japan, 1868-1945
  • HIS 349 Post-War Japan, 1945-present
  • Political Science
  • PSC 106 Introduction to International Relations
  • PSC 271 Russia and Eastern Europe: Politics and
  • International Relations
  • PSC 272 Theories of International Relations
  • PSC 274 International Political Economy

Secondary Courses

  • Anthropology
  • ANT 266 Global Culture
  • ANT 274 Islam and Global Politics
  • Economics
  • ECO 211 Money, Credit, and Banking
  • ECO 227 American Economic Growth
  • ECO 231 Econometrics
  • ECO 252 Economics and Societies in Latin America
  • ECO 263 Public Finance
  • History
  • HIS 105 Traditional Japan
  • HIS 108 Traditional China
  • HIS 112 Early Modern Europe
  • HIS 150 Russian Civilization
  • HIS 153 Russia Now (2 credits)
  • HIS 154 Russia Now (4 credits)
  • HIS 203 Economies and Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean Since 1492
  • HIS 222 Revloutionary & Napoleonic France, 1750-1871
  • HIS 299 Imperialism and the Novel
  • HIS 356 The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1650-1850
  • HIS 357 Evolution of the World Economic Order Since 1500
  • Modern Languages and Cultures
  • CLT 160 The New Europe
  • FR 204 Contemporary French Culture
  • FR 205 Francophone Cultures
  • GER 202 Introduction to German Studies
  • GER 287 Nazi Culture
  • GER 289 German Directors
  • IT 200 Topics in Italian Culture
  • IT 247 Modern Italy
  • JPN 246 Issues in Contemp. Japanese Culture
  • RUS 127 Russia Now (2 credits)
  • RUS 128 Russian Civilization
  • SP 205 Spanish Culture
  • SP 206 Spanish-American Culture
  • SP 248 Spain's Transition to Democracy
  • SP 262D Literature and Culture of the Caribbean Naval Science
  • NAV 251 Evolution of Warfare
  • Philosophy
  • PHL 108 Philosophy of War
  • PHL 308 Morality and War Political Science
  • PSC 101 Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • PSC 285 Strategy and Politics
  • PSC 292 Politics and Economics of the Post-Communist Transformation
  • PSC 350 Problems in Comparative Politics
  • PSC 351 Western European Politics

**Please note that this list is not all inclusive; there may be other courses that are applicable.

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